Rebirth of the Rich Second Generation's Growth Diary

Chapter 174 The Final Crushing Victory! [A Long Chapter of 9,000 Words!]

There is a half-hour break before the formal rebuttal begins.

Backstage, Li Xu and all the core members of his team sat together.

Xia Xiaohe came in from outside carrying a plastic bag. Seeing that the atmosphere inside was somewhat serious, he gently closed the door.

Then she opened the plastic bag and said, "I bought some ice cream, everyone have some."

This was the most crucial moment, and no one present had any appetite for ice cream.

Li Xu, on the other hand, slowly took a piece from the bag, tore it open, and took a bite. The icy ice cream slid down his throat and into his esophagus, instantly making his mind much clearer.

He smiled and said, "It tastes pretty good. I haven't had this kind of food in a long time."

An Duoduo raised her head: "Next is the rebuttal round. It seems like our opponents know a lot about our project. Are you confident?"

Li Xu put the ice cream in his mouth and bit down hard. The soft, chewy ice cream made his teeth ache a little from the cold. He said somewhat incoherently, "I think everyone might have misunderstood something."

Li Xu casually tossed the unfinished ice cream into the nearby trash can. Xia Xiaohe frowned slightly at this sight, thinking that the action was not cool at all.

Li Xu continued, “The rebuttal segment may seem like a debate between us and our opponents, and it’s about defeating them, but that’s not actually the case.” A strange light flickered in Li Xu’s eyes as he said, “Our opponents are actually the judges and investors in the audience. What we need to do is not to defeat Zhang Ye and Ye Jinhe, but to impress the judges in the audience. Do you understand what I mean?”

After Li Xu calmly said those words, his friends all fell into deep thought.

Tang Qiaoning was the first to laugh heartily, saying, "That's right, Li Xu is confident, so we don't really need to worry so much."

Li Xu's gaze swept across everyone, a strange mix of emotions washing over him. After a brief silence, he said, "Today is the last dance before our project matures. No matter how this final competition ends, our project will fully enter the next stage. It's not just the project itself that will grow together."

Li Xu paused for a moment, a smile appearing on his lips: "I'm 21 years old now, still quite young, as are you all. But after today, we're no longer just students. Do you understand what I mean? I'm so glad to have such great partners along the way. In the future, we'll encounter many more storms and challenges, perhaps not as simple and innocent as the ones we're facing now."

Li Xu took a deep breath and said earnestly, "But no matter what, I hope our original aspirations remain unchanged!"

Xia Xiaohe had the shortest time working on the project with Li Xu, but she was the most moved at that moment.

She couldn't help but recall how Li Xu used to describe the future to her at home when she was still a junior high school student. She never imagined that, in the blink of an eye, that scene would become a reality.

She muttered softly, "Why are you saying such sentimental things for no reason?"

Li Xu laughed heartily, then his expression turned serious.

His gaze swept across everyone's faces again: Shen Mobai, who was good at handling financial data; An Duoduo, who was very clear about company operations and management; Ye Ruida, the algorithm expert; Lei Yinbing, the hardware encyclopedia; Liu Yunfei, the security expert; and Xue Xue, Xia Xiaohe, Tang Qiaoning... Each of them had their own strengths, and more importantly, each of them was so... outstanding!
Li Xu chuckled lightly: "Do you know what the real moat of our project is?" Before anyone could answer, he said confidently, "It's not how good the project itself is, but you guys!"

Then a cold smile appeared on his lips as he said, "I met Ye Jin once before. She was just a graduate student during the summer vacation. Her performance on this stage was indeed amazing... but she's just one person, and I'm not even sure how familiar she is with their project."

"And we are a team that has been through so much together. Your abilities and our teamwork are the moat that secured our victory in this competition!"

Then Li Xu said firmly, "By leveraging our expertise, we won't lose!"

As he spoke, Li Xu slowly put on his headset.

In the next phase, he won't be fighting alone; everyone on the team will be part of the battle!

……

The break time was quickly up.

Li Xu and Ye Jin took to the stage.

The host, standing in the center of the stage, explained the rules of the rebuttal round. He picked up the microphone, glanced at the cue card, and then solemnly began: "The specific rules for the rebuttal round are as follows: the judges will ask questions, and the entrepreneurs will answer them. After the entrepreneurs have finished answering, the other entrepreneurs can raise questions based on their answers."

Clearly, this is not a debate like those in college debates, where judges ask targeted questions about the project. The core is to answer the judges' questions, or rather, to address their concerns and anxieties.

The opponent's questioning, on the other hand, takes a completely opposing stance, making it more difficult to dispel the judges' concerns.

This competition format is much more reasonable than having contestants ask each other questions.

In addition, each team has a display screen behind them, where their technical staff can access data or other supporting materials when necessary to demonstrate their claims more intuitively.

After announcing the rules, the host looked around before smiling and asking, "Are the representatives of both entrepreneurs ready? Now I declare the debate officially open. First, I would like to invite the judges to ask questions."

The first judge to ask a question was an engineer from Alibaba Cloud Security. After carefully reviewing the materials in his hand, he looked up and stared directly at Li Xu: "Li Xu's credit score system requires the collection of 23 data items, including consumption, social interaction, and travel. Are there any privacy concerns regarding this?"

Liu Yunfei's laughter immediately came through the headset. He said, "This question is too simple. Li Xu, can you briefly explain our encryption architecture to him?"

Unlike other company leaders, Li Xu had grown alongside the project, and he was familiar with every aspect of it. Although he wasn't a professional in the field, he understood the basic principles. So, after Liu Yunfei's reminder, he smiled and slowly explained, "We use a three-layer encryption architecture, with consumer data and social data stored on different servers. Sensitive information is anonymized during credit score calculations, which has been certified by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology."

As he spoke, Li Xu pointed to the screen and said, "Now we can show you how to use this function."

As soon as he finished speaking, Xue Xue in the back office was already operating the computer, displaying the application interface intuitively on the screen. After clicking on a certain display permission switch, Li Xu said, "Users can even turn off the social matching data source themselves, just as easily as turning off WeChat Moments."

Ye Jinhe, standing on the stage, couldn't think of any suitable questions for a moment, so she fell silent.

The host asked, "Did the other party have any questions?"

Ye Jinhe didn't speak, and there was no sound in the earpiece. Unfortunately, neither Zhang Ye nor Ye Jinhe were technical personnel in this field, so neither of them could come up with any questions to ask.

Seeing that the other party didn't react, a faint smile appeared on Li Xu's lips.

The next question was from the vice president of Tsinghua and Peking Universities. He looked up at Ye Jinhe after reviewing the report: "The smart parking project proposes to charge a 15% dispatch service fee, but most existing parking management systems use an annual fee system. How can we persuade traditional operators?"

Ye Jin took a deep breath and said, "Let me take Wanda Group as an example!"

She turned to the large screen and said, "Please wait a moment while our technicians show you a cooperation agreement."

Compared to Li Xu's smooth and fast presentation, Ye Jin and her team spent a considerable amount of time retrieving the agreement. They even projected the computer desktop directly onto the screen without hiding it. Everyone watched as they opened the folder on the big screen, selected the agreement from the folder, and finally opened it in Word format.

In contrast, Li Xu's projection only displays the necessary interface, making the difference in quality immediately apparent.

Although the audience didn't gossip about it, Ye Jinhe still felt a bit powerless. She had already coordinated with all of Zhang Ye's departments when preparing for this roadshow, but unfortunately, she was the only one who was exhausted.

Departments within the company are afraid to do more work and shirk responsibility. This phenomenon has already emerged even before the company has taken off.

She truly put in a lot of hard work on every detail of the project, even staying up all night to learn the technologies she didn't understand. That's why she was so confident when she stepped onto the roadshow stage.

However, she also knew that her behavior had offended many people in the company.

To paraphrase a department head, we did all the work; we've been with this project as it's grown... and then suddenly someone comes along who's good with words, and wow, all the credit goes to her.

Some things were said without any attempt to hide them, and they reached her ears.

Ye Jinhe originally didn't care about these rumors. In her opinion, they were just trivial noise. As long as she was strong enough, she wouldn't be afraid of them. But at this moment, she suddenly realized that she was not afraid of god-like opponents, but of pig-like teammates.

Fortunately, the agreement still appeared on the screen. She breathed a sigh of relief, gathered her thoughts, and began to explain earnestly: "We have reached a pilot agreement with Wanda Group, based on the factual data showing a 20% increase in parking space turnover."

However, while Ye Jinhe's team was searching for the agreement, none of Li Xu's teammates were idle. Through their headsets, An Duoduo told him that they could make inquiries here, and Xue Xue immediately sent the data to the screen.

Ye Jinhe's answer wasn't exactly amazing, but it was decent enough. At least based on her agreement, it did alleviate some of the judges' concerns.

However, when the host asked if the opponent had any questions, Li Xu nodded without hesitation. Then, two sets of data were suddenly inserted on the big screen, and Li Xu began to question based on the data: "According to the report of the China Parking Industry Association, the network connection rate of commercial parking lots nationwide in 2014 was only 7.3%."

He pulled up the competitor's operational data: "Of the 20 pilot parking lots, 14 required municipal cooperation to upgrade their systems, with a single parking lot taking as long as 47 days to connect—is this model really replicable?"

Li Xu's sudden questioning disrupted Ye Jinhe's rhythm. Not only did Li Xu have publicly available operational data, but he had also found industry reports in such a short time to address the judges' questions. For a moment, Ye Jinhe's mind went blank, but she forced herself to calm down and said, "This model is certainly replicable… Well, firstly, not all parking lots require the city government's cooperation for renovation. Secondly, based on our experience… I mean…"

Ye Jin gave a somewhat hesitant and forced explanation, and Li Xu, still with a warm smile on his face, nodded, "Okay, my questioning is over."

Looking at Li Xu's face, which resembled Li Ming's, Ye Jin felt inexplicably irritated. She glanced guiltily at the judges below the stage, but couldn't glean much from their expressions.

This match was very intense.

There were more than a dozen judges in the audience. Even if each judge asked only one question, there would be at least a dozen questions.

To give the entrepreneurs on both sides enough time to adjust, the questions were asked alternately.

Even so, answering a question requires immediately shifting one's mindset to consider whether there are any points in the other person's answer that can be questioned, which is a huge challenge to one's energy and attention.

Ye Jinhe gradually began to feel somewhat powerless.

She naturally wore a headset, but only Zhang Ye was on the other end of the headset, and he could occasionally offer some suggestions.

However, compared to that, given the lack of timely data and relevant materials, it was already quite good that he was able to answer the judges' questions well, and the criticism of Li Xu seemed ineffective.

Gradually, Ye Jinhe also began to have some doubts. She didn't understand why Li Xu still seemed so relaxed at this moment.

Li Xu can react instantly to every answer or question, and he can quickly bring up some key evidence on the big screen and display it intuitively.

Li Xu's attention was not on Ye Jinhe at all.

The team members had no pressure and had plenty of time, so they were able to perform their respective duties.

Li Xu didn't even need to think about many things; they could provide timely feedback.

So what seemed like a high-intensity series of answers and questions wasn't actually that tiring for Li Xu. He was simply expressing his team's achievements in a more precise and vivid way.

As a team member, Xia Xiaohe could better understand their efficiency at this time.

It seems like everyone is helping Li Xu answer questions and collect information, but in reality, if Li Xu didn't have such a clear understanding of the project from beginning to end, how could he possibly grasp the key points of each person in an instant?

If it weren't for everyone consistently fulfilling their respective roles, working towards the same goal, doing what they do best, and overcoming one difficulty after another, how could they have become so familiar with each other, have such a high level of tacit understanding, and have the team function as a well-organized whole?

They cooperate like a swarm of bees.

Ultimately, it all comes down to Li Xu.

The judges in the audience were naturally able to glean some clues from the performances of both sides.

While Ye Jin was focusing all her attention on the questions themselves, Li Xu had enough energy to observe the judges.

He has gradually figured out the pattern of the judges' questions. Although these judges seem to come from different industries and fields, their questions actually follow the same principle. This is because both projects use the Internet and require users, so there are many common key business points.

Once Ye Jinhe has finished asking a question, she might ask herself another one in a different form.

Having grasped this principle, Li Xu became much more at ease during the preparation process.

The debate continues.

The judges held up the audit report and asked seriously, "20% of Ye's project revenue comes from government smart city subsidies. What if the policy is phased out..." Ye Jinhe hurriedly opened the document from the National Development and Reform Commission: "The 2020 New Urbanization Plan clearly requires strengthening the construction of urban parking facilities. Our project is in line with the policy direction. Moreover, we are also expanding our market-oriented business to reduce our dependence on subsidies."

Li Xu quickly interrupted with a CCTV news clip: "Three days ago, the State Council canceled 45 local government subsidies. Speaking of which, in your company's cash flow calculations, the proportion of municipal subsidies has been changed from 25% to 19%, right?" Two versions of the document were displayed on the big screen: "Policy changes are unpredictable, and over-reliance on subsidies poses too great a risk to projects."

Ye Jin was rendered speechless by Li Xu's retort, and she increasingly felt suffocated when facing him.

She found that no matter how she answered the questions, Li Xu could always find flaws and immediately expose them with evidence, often real-time evidence that hit her sore spots. For a moment, Ye Jinhe's breathing became erratic. She took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down.

At this point, as his teamwork improved, Li Xu's answers became more sharp, and he even casually nudged the opponent's project while answering questions.

At this moment, a judge's glasses reflected the light as he looked at Li Xu: "The credit scoring system in the smart campus solution relies on campus card swipe data. If the device loses network access..."

This problem was too simple for Li Xu. He calmly explained, "We've developed an offline credit caching system. Even if you swipe your card in the underground lab, the data will be uploaded with a delay." He suddenly turned to the technology screen: "But what about the other party's geomagnetic sensor—" Almost without a pause, a video of a parking lot during a rainstorm appeared on the screen. Li Xu pointed to the video and said, "Last week, a rainstorm in Donghai City caused 23 sensors to short-circuit. Car owners complained that you induced them to drive into flooded parking spaces?"

Ye Jin gripped the laser pointer tightly: "We have already purchased IP68 protective equipment."

Li Xu seamlessly displayed a JD.com price list on the screen: "The unit price of the new equipment has increased by 240%, and your Series B financing agreement requires you to expand to 30 cities by the end of the year, right? I wonder if you have enough money... or are you including the funds you received from this startup competition?"

The judges below the stage watched the two performers with great interest.

At this point in the match, it was clear to anyone with a discerning eye that Li Xu's team had completely overwhelmed Ye Jinhe.

Backstage, the heads of several departments watched the scene on the screen with Zhang Ye.

The marketing manager sighed, "Sigh, can't answer this question again?"

The manager of the administrative office frowned and said, "It seems that sending Ye Jinhe up to argue is not a wise choice."

Zhang Ye snorted and said, "Are you implying that I made the wrong decision?"

The manager immediately looked embarrassed and quickly shook his head: "Mr. Zhang, that's not what I meant. What I meant was..."

Zhang Ye waved his hand, signaling him to stop talking. He was relatively calm at this point, knowing that he wouldn't do any better than Ye Jinhe if he went on stage; in fact, his tendency to stutter would only make things worse. He just couldn't understand why Li Xu was able to react to every question so quickly.

He picked up the headset next to him, glanced at all the middle managers present, and said, "If you have a better answer, be sure to tell Ye Jinhe through the headset as soon as possible."

He then looked at the staff member operating the back-end computer and said, "Xiao Liu, are you in charge of managing the materials Ye Jin used during her rebuttal?"

The staff member named Xiao Liu nodded and said, "Manager Ye and I spent a month compiling these materials, but they are not needed in many parts of this debate."

Zhang Ye sighed deeply and said, "This shows that the preparations were not thorough enough, and the direction is also very important."

Xiaoling sneered inwardly, thinking about how she had worked day and night with Manager Ye on this matter. She felt sorry for Manager Ye, but since he was a nobody, she remained silent. Everyone else had the CEO personally handle it, but here, someone who had only been with the company for a few dozen days was shouldering everything. To have done this much was already quite impressive.

At this point, the debate between the two sides was nearing its end, and the judges' questions were no longer targeted but rather questions that both sides could answer.

At this point, the vice presidents of Tsinghua and Peking Universities asked questions. Throughout the session, they did not show favoritism towards Li Xu's team, and their question was equally fair: "This is the last question. Can you provide data to prove the irreplaceability of your project?"

Ye Jinhe showed the order volume: "We have achieved a peak daily revenue of 4.7 yuan."

Just as this question ended, Shen Mobai's impatient voice rang in Li Xu's earpiece, "Boss, I'll handle this question!" At the same time, three sets of data were projected simultaneously.

Li Xu glanced at the data on the screen and smiled as he spoke: "First, our parcel lockers have eliminated all campus parcel fraud cases; second, impoverished students have increased their monthly income by an average of 376 yuan through shared parcel pickup services; third, the cafeteria has reduced food waste by 24% after optimizing its menu based on our consumption data."

He suddenly pulled up a screenshot of an official document from the Ministry of Education: "Just last week, our campus credit score system was included in the pilot program for evaluating the comprehensive quality of college students—these social values ​​cannot be reflected by purely financial data."

Just as Ye Jin was about to speak, her nails digging into her palm, Li Xu suddenly added, "By the way, Senior Ye, the order data you showed includes government parking lot test orders, which need to be specially marked according to the competition rules."

Suddenly, the large screen displayed the yellow-highlighted section of the opponent's data table.

At the same time, Shen Mobai's barely concealed laughter came through Li Xu's earpiece.

Upon seeing this, Ye Jinhe's face turned deathly pale, and she almost lost her balance. At this moment, she no longer resembled a swan, but rather a defeated rooster, unable to conceal her dejection.

All the questions are now answered.

The host announced that both entrepreneurs would take a 10-minute break, after which the results would be announced.

After Li Xu left the stage, he was immediately surrounded by his teammates. Seeing that everyone was trying to rush up and hug him, Li Xu dodged Xue Xue and then hugged Ye Ruida.

Shen Mobai said, "Boss, your performance was excellent. You completely crushed the opponent."

Li Xu shook his head seriously and said, "First of all, let me correct one point. It wasn't that I crushed Ye Jinhe, but that our team crushed Ye Jinhe's team, or rather, Zhang Ye's team."

He then sighed slightly, looked at everyone, and said, "Didn't you guys notice? Ye Jin organized everything herself. Although I find it a bit unbelievable, Zhang Ye's team doesn't seem to have given her any direct help. Whether it's her answers or what's displayed on the big screen, there's no real-time information at all."

An Duoduo nodded and said, "I noticed that too."

Li Xu said with emotion, "Ye Jinhe is indeed a rare talent. She seems to have a management background, mainly in human resource management. She has only been in Zhang Ye's company for a short time, but she has already figured out Zhang Ye's business so well, and she also has a lot of specific technical knowledge. From this point of view, if I hadn't been facing our entire team, I wouldn't have won so easily."

Li Xu's lavish praise of Ye Jinhe only increased the others' admiration for him. This is what a good leader is like—always clear-headed and calm, never letting victory go to their head. Following such a leader is a sure thing.

In contrast, when Ye Jin arrived backstage, no one spoke. She sat down silently and immediately berated Xiao Liu, saying, "Why didn't you provide me with real-time evidence from several places just now? News, policy documents—these can all be searched!"

Xiao Liu was also aggrieved, but he knew that Manager Ye was even more aggrieved. He silently turned his head to look at Zhang Ye and the others, secretly thinking to himself that they were really a bunch of amateurs.

At this moment, Zhang Ye went over and gently patted Ye Jinhe on the shoulder: "You have performed very well." But these words inadvertently attributed the failure to Ye Jinhe.

Ye Jinhe only then realized how deep a hole she had fallen into.

Ten minutes passed quickly, and soon it was time for the third round of capital negotiations.

First, the judges announced the results. Out of the remaining 4 million yuan in funding, the smart parking project received 6000 million yuan, while Li Xu's team raked in the remaining 3.5 million yuan. In other words, this startup competition can be seen as a fundraising event, and the valuation of Li Xu's team's project skyrocketed.

However, the real game begins when it comes to the division of equity.

At this moment, everyone's attention is focused on Li Xu's smart campus solution.

The chief judge, who was in charge of state-owned assets, smiled and said, "Li Xu, I won't waste any more words. Our state-owned assets are leading this project, but we need to raise the equity requirements. We can guarantee that we will not interfere with any of the management rights, but we require that the pre-approved 30% equity be increased to 40%."

After a brief silence, Li Xu picked up the microphone, and his first words were earth-shattering: "We will give up a maximum of 35% of the equity, and the equity structure will be similar to JD.com's A/B shares, with different voting rights for different shares. At the same time, we require that this project be wholly funded by state-owned assets." After a pause, Li Xu said decisively, "In other words, we will only accept investment from state-owned assets."

While it may seem like Li Xu has abandoned market-based financing channels, he is actually building a mechanism for risk-sharing between the government and enterprises.

Because this project is different from other projects!

These words immediately caused an uproar at the scene, especially among the many investors, whose faces darkened instantly.

Ye Jin, standing to the side, stared blankly at the scene. She couldn't understand why, after clearly defeating her with overwhelming force, Li Xu would choose to antagonize all the investors at this crucial juncture. Undoubtedly, Li Xu's words had offended all the investors present.

After a brief moment of surprise, the person in charge of the state-owned assets slowly leaned back in his chair, looked at Li Xu with interest, and said, "Our state-owned assets can't come up with that much money. Are you willing to accept a reduction in investment funds?"

Li Xu smiled slightly, and an image suddenly appeared on the large screen behind him. Li Xu turned around and introduced, "This is a shared bicycle project that a team from Huajing University came up with a few months ago. It has already secured Series B funding." Everyone looked at the large screen, and Li Xu continued, "This project missed the entrepreneurship competition, so it can only participate in next year's competition. But without a doubt, it is a project that is very popular with investors. The project's founder, Lei Lifeng, is already looking for Series C funding."

Everyone looked at Li Xu with some doubt, not understanding why Li Xu was talking about the shared bicycle project at this critical juncture.
As Li Xu said, this project has great investment potential and has already attracted the attention of many investment institutions. The founder, Lei Lifeng, is indeed a very capable entrepreneur.

Li Xu said, "What if I said this project could be seamlessly integrated into our smart campus solution? That is, shared bikes could be unlocked directly on campus using a campus card and connected to the campus credit score system without a deposit. Would that increase our project's valuation?"

The leader from the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) had a slightly flickering look in his eyes and asked, "Have you already reached an agreement with Lei Lifeng?"

Li Xu chuckled and said, "Actually, Lei Lifeng is already here. Let him go on stage and speak himself."

The audience began to murmur amongst themselves. Just then, a person stood up from the edge of the audience and reluctantly walked slowly onto the stage.

Despite being dressed casually, Lei Lifeng was immediately recognized by many investors as a rising star in the startup world.

Lei Lifeng glared at Li Xu with annoyance: "Good grief, now you're trying to put me in a difficult position, huh?"

Lei Lifeng then politely greeted the several distinguished judges present.

The state-owned assets leader asked, "Lei Lifeng, have you and Li Xu finalized the cooperation agreement?"

Lei Lifeng shook his head: "That's completely untrue. I just received the news myself."

These words caused another uproar at the scene.

The state-owned assets leader frowned, but at that moment, Lei Lifeng changed the subject and said, "However, I accept everything Li Xu said unconditionally." He smiled slightly, "Taking this opportunity, I would also like to solemnly declare to everyone that as long as a university has connected to the smart campus solution, it can waive the deposit and support the use of campus cards to unlock shared bicycles."

Everyone present was astonished. What was going on? Such a huge collaboration, decided on a whim? What was the relationship between the two of them?
Then Li Xu became serious and said to the state-owned assets leader, "There is a reason for your request earlier that the state-owned assets fund the project alone. I would like to ask a staff member to bring you something."

The state-owned assets leader hesitated for a moment, then nodded. Afterwards, Liu Yunfei came up from backstage and took a document in a kraft paper envelope.

The state-owned assets leader opened the document, and several large words came into view: Report on the continuous attacks on the smart campus system server by overseas IP addresses.

Upon seeing these large characters, the leader's political instincts kicked in. His expression remained unchanged as he slowly put the report into an envelope. Then, he said to Li Xu in a deep voice, "This matter is of great importance. We need to go back and discuss it in a meeting."

After putting the documents into his sailor-bag briefcase, the leader changed the subject with a smile and said, "But there's something I'm curious about. During the cross-examination, all your answers and questions weren't your achievement alone, were they?"

Li Xu nodded without hesitation and said, "Yes, it is because each member of our team behind the scenes performs their own duties that we were able to find the most suitable rebuttal methods in such a short time."

Upon hearing this, Ye Jinhe's expression became somewhat complicated as she glanced at Li Xu.

The state-owned assets leader chuckled and said, "There's a saying in the investment world: 'Investment isn't about projects, it's about people.' From that perspective, your team has great investment potential."

After Li Xu's project ended with no results, Zhang Ye's team's project had become rather dull.

After the conference ended, Ye Jinhe did not immediately go to meet up with Zhang Ye and the others. Instead, she sat alone on the steps, feeling very frustrated.

Just then, a figure walked over from the side. Ye Jin subconsciously looked up and saw that it was Li Xu.

Before Li Xu could speak, Ye Jinhe sneered, "You did win, but I'm not that fragile. I don't need your comfort."

Li Xu was holding an empty Coke bottle. He blinked and said, "Uh, you might have misunderstood. I wasn't planning on comforting you."

As he spoke, Li Xu took an extra step and threw the Coke bottle into Ye Jin's trash can next to her.

Then, Li Xu left without looking back.

Ye Jinhe watched Li Xu's retreating figure, bit her lip, and the last string in her heart snapped.

Cried.

(End of this chapter)